The blue finger of democracy
In 2005, when elections were restored to Iraq, voters marked their participation by dipping their index finger in blue ink. Texas forbade the use of mail-in ballots for elections beyond […]
Visualizing NCAA GPA data
On 5 Sept 2018, the NCAA Research team tweeted out this chart : It reports the average core high school grade point averages (GPA) among NCAA Division I freshman student […]
Homographic terms
Many terms in athletic coaching are poorly defined yet form the basis of disagreements. For example, the word athletic is really not quantifiable, and describes some quality that cannot be […]
Recognizing Sports Pseudoscience
In a recent discussion with BJ Leroy of USA Volleyball, I encountered a paper by Bailey et al (2018) published in the open access journal Frontiers in Psychology, titled “The […]
The mythical 300 jumps
This article has moved to a new location. Wilson, the sporting goods company, posted an ad on Instagram declaring DURING A MATCH, VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS ON AVERAGE JUMP 300 TIMES. The […]